Will_Newsome comments on Open Thread, September, 2010-- part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 28 September 2010 04:47:41AM *  4 points [-]

Analog computing via food. This is the dawn of the non-Bayes era!

And this is what I call the Lemon Glazing Fallacy, which generates an argument for a fully arbitrary New Idea in AI using the following template:

  • Major premise: All previous AI efforts failed to yield true intelligence.
  • Minor premise: All previous AIs were built without delicious lemon glazing.
  • Conclusion: If we build AIs with delicious lemon glazing, they will work.